Vocabulary
To officially cancel or take back a decision or statement.
What is revoke?
The correct "there," "their," or "they're" to show possession.
What is "their"?
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
Who is Guy Montag?
A classic children's book in which a young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
This literary term refers to the person the audience is rooting for in a story, often the main character.
What is a protagonist?
A person who supports or promotes a cause or idea.
What is an advocate?
The part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
“I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn’t it?”
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," this magical country is the main setting, which is accessed by the main characters through a wardrobe.
What is Narnia?
Manga novels come from this country.
What is Japan?
A feeling of deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
What is remorse?
The "affect" or "effect" that shows the result of an action.
What is "effect"?
"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
Who is Faber?
"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," translated as "Never Touch a Sleeping Dragon," is the official motto for this fictional place of learning.
What is Hogwarts?
This Lois Lowry book centers on protagonist Jonas's apprenticeship to become his utopian society's Receiver of Memory.
What is The Giver?
Very dangerous or deadly.
What is lethal?
Use this punctuation mark to set off extra information or non-essential clauses.
What is a comma?
"Montag, take my word for it, I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They're about non-existent people, figments of imagination, if they're fiction. And if they're non-fiction, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost."
Who is Mildred Montag?
Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are the caretakers of this famed female protagonist portrayed by Judy Garland.
Who is Dorothy Gale?
Figurative Language: "She kicked the bucket."
What is an idiom?
Very careful with details.
What is meticulous?
This tense describes an action that was completed before another past action.
What is past perfect?
“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so...full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
Who is Captain Beatty?
The famed author of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish who set her 2004 novel, Hawkes Harbor, in Delaware.
Who is SE Hinton?
The name or the symbol "&".
What is an ampersand?